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...swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it???covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway, had by her a lusty set of triplets, departed with her into the wide world "as the birds do and the wind." Suspense and tragedy are wholly absent from the book...
...press?or a section of it??? more truthful, more civilized than politics...
...whole. Nevertheless, the "What's-Wrong-With-This-Picture" artists are still lustily at it, and this latest contestant gallops into the field with a new and complete assortment of What to do and When to do it, What and how to eat and What to wear while eating it???and all the other social amenities from the cradle to the grave...
...victory for the President's secretary, Mr. Slemp. Butler and Frank W. Stearns, the President's intimate advisors, had not heard of Burton's choice in advance. Coolidge let it be known that Burton was his personal choice, but it was suspected that Slemp might have inspired it??? and if so that Slemp might inspire himself as choice for the National Committee Chairmanship...
...rate. His reasons for so doing, he explains as follows: worked in a bank as a young man. I started working at 14, when I left school and got a $3 job with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it???should have had the job. I expected it???rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors did; it wasn't fair; it wasn't right. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten the incident, but possibly, subconsciously, that...